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Grounded Fleet to Cost BA Millions

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Kaveri Niththyananthan

April 16, 2010 5:09 a.m. ET

LONDON—British Airways PLC will see the cost of grounding its entire fleet for the first time in its history run to several millions of pounds.

The largest operator by number of takeoff and landing slots at London's Heathrow, the world's busiest international passenger airport, was forced to ground its fleet after an ash plume from a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier closed down airspace over the U.K. and much of...